Age-old issues of homelessness, poverty and hunger take on a new spin as budding social entrepreneurs gather to exchange ideas at Arizona State University’s Changemaker Central. Changemaker Central is a collaborative campus work space packed with resources, technological tools and networking opportunities. The goal of the program is to empower students to apply their education, [...]
Dec 3 2012 | Posted in
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Becoming a parent at a young age doesn’t necessarily mean dropping out of high school, and the Tempe Union High School District’s Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Program appears to be proving the point. In fact, say representatives of the district’s non profit Educational Foundation, 933 students were prevented from dropping out or have returned to [...]
Nov 19 2012 | Posted in
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Preparing a child for school doesn’t start at age three, or five or seven. Ideally, it begins at birth. That’s only one of the messages parents learned at a recent Parent Summit, held at Kyrene Middle School. The session covered a wide range of subjects, such as early childhood brain science, Internet safety, middle school [...]
Nov 19 2012 | Posted in
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For the second year in a row, students from the Kyrene de las Brisas chapter of National Elementary Honor Society and the Aprende Middle School chapter of National Junior Honor Society will collaborate to create cozy fleece blankets for holiday giving to critically ill children. Families from both schools will pitch in by donating fleece [...]
Nov 19 2012 | Posted in
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One person probably can’t teach another to be funny. On the other hand, if there’s funny somewhere inside a person, that person can probably be taught to use it to best advantage. This is what Tony Vicich has been doing for more than a decade now. A veteran stand-up comic himself, Vicich has been teaching [...]
Nov 6 2012 | Posted in
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On April 20, 1999, two students from Columbine High School in Colorado shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher. It was the worst high school shooting in the nation’s history. This year, on Oct. 25, about 1,200 students from Kyrene Middle School in Tempe gathered in the multipurpose room during back-to-back assemblies to learn [...]
Nov 5 2012 | Posted in
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Twenty-six students representing Corona del Sol and McClintock high schools have been named semifinalists in the 2013 National Merit Scholarship competition. Academically talented seniors in all Tempe Union high schools will compete for awards to be offered next spring. The Tempe district leads all state public schools in the number of NMS winners. As reported [...]
Oct 6 2012 | Posted in
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Ongoing budget problems, teacher salaries, changing demographics and how fundamental subjects are taught were the focal points of a discussion Oct. 1 among candidates for the Kyrene School District Governing Board. The candidates’ views were part of a public forum designed to increase interest in the upcoming school board elections and provide a first-hand look [...]
Oct 6 2012 | Posted in
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Cafeterias in all 25 Kyrene district schools will be a centerpiece for this year’s observance of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance program, scheduled Tuesday, Oct. 30. The program, which recognizes “Mix It Up” model schools, looks for innovative ways to create an environment where respect and inclusiveness are core values. These values then [...]
Oct 6 2012 | Posted in
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Kathy Covert doesn’t want to sound boastful, but it’s hard not to. In its latest release of academic data, the Arizona Department of Education revealed that, once again, third through eighth graders from Summit School of Ahwatukee, where Covert is admissions director, did exceptionally well in the statewide AIMS Dual Purpose Assessment. For example, Covert [...]
Aug 25 2012 | Posted in
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